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Re:Things about the new Firefox browser for Android by Drdrdrq on Thursday February 27, 2020 @04:09PM (#22437908)
The question is - _an_ adblocker or _the_ adblocker (ublock)? As a long time FF Android user I prefer uMatrix and will wait with upgrade, hoping they fix this quickly. Otherwise... Not sure what I'll do. This is bad. :-(
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Re:Things about the new Firefox browser for Android by bscphil on Thursday February 27, 2020 @11:04PM (#22440434)
As far as I know, uMatrix is not a (dynamic) ad blocker. That is, if some requests to subdomain.domain.net are for ads and some of the requests are for important page content, uMatrix isn't capable of distinguishing between the two. A real ad blocker uses block lists compiled (at least in part) by other people that can distinguish between two different URLs on the same domain.
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Re:Things about the new Firefox browser for Android by Drdrdrq on Friday February 28, 2020 @03:32PM (#22446065)
Fair point, except - I am more concerned with tracking than the ads themselves. Which means I want to block Google fonts anywhere, and only allow domains when I want to. So no, I prefer uMatrix approach.
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Re:Things about the new Firefox browser for Android by saagarjha on Friday February 28, 2020 @02:27AM (#22441140)
> _the_ adblocker (ublock)

I would not be surprised if "_the_ adblocker" was actually Adblock Plus.

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